Rain Partier

thefourthman wrote:Re: The Buzzard... not yet, I have been falling asleep reading during this struggle with this cold. does not help that I have been working open to close for several days either. I get home, veg out in front of the television for about a half hour. Pick up the copy of Blacksad I have been reading for a week and wake up about four in the morning with a crick in my neck and the book on my chest.

Rain Partier

thefourthman wrote:Re: The Buzzard... not yet, I have been falling asleep reading during this struggle with this cold. does not help that I have been working open to close for several days either. I get home, veg out in front of the television for about a half hour. Pick up the copy of Blacksad I have been reading for a week and wake up about four in the morning with a crick in my neck and the book on my chest.

Outhouse Editor

can't help you there, Dark Horse says it still isn't available according to their website, I got mine last week, Midtown had on shipping list for this week... who knows? Diamond fucking around is the answer.

can't help you there, Dark Horse says it still isn't available according to their website, I got mine last week, Midtown had on shipping list for this week... who knows? Diamond fucking around is the answer.

Rain Partier

thefourthman wrote:can't help you there, Dark Horse says it still isn't available according to their website, I got mine last week, Midtown had on shipping list for this week... who knows? Diamond fucking around is the answer.

Mine is sitting at DCBS.

They don't think that plus a half a dozen comics I've been waiting months for are worth sending me.

Rain Partier

thefourthman wrote:can't help you there, Dark Horse says it still isn't available according to their website, I got mine last week, Midtown had on shipping list for this week... who knows? Diamond fucking around is the answer.

Mine is sitting at DCBS.

They don't think that plus a half a dozen comics I've been waiting months for are worth sending me.

Outhouse Editor

just because I say it works better as a single issue publication doesn't mean that my hardcover collection gene doesn't kick in, override it and demand that shit be on my shelf. And since I have read enough of it to be able to sell it off the shelf, I no longer need to be up to date on it and can read at my leisure when it comes out in the pretty hardcover.

just because I say it works better as a single issue publication doesn't mean that my hardcover collection gene doesn't kick in, override it and demand that shit be on my shelf. And since I have read enough of it to be able to sell it off the shelf, I no longer need to be up to date on it and can read at my leisure when it comes out in the pretty hardcover.

Rain Partier

thefourthman wrote:just because I say it works better as a single issue publication doesn't mean that my hardcover collection gene doesn't kick in, override it and demand that shit be on my shelf. And since I have read enough of it to be able to sell it off the shelf, I no longer need to be up to date on it and can read at my leisure when it comes out in the pretty hardcover.

I'm not even going to get started here. I already trounced your opinion in the GN thread about it, now it turns out you don't even practice what you preach!

Rain Partier

thefourthman wrote:just because I say it works better as a single issue publication doesn't mean that my hardcover collection gene doesn't kick in, override it and demand that shit be on my shelf. And since I have read enough of it to be able to sell it off the shelf, I no longer need to be up to date on it and can read at my leisure when it comes out in the pretty hardcover.

I'm not even going to get started here. I already trounced your opinion in the GN thread about it, now it turns out you don't even practice what you preach!

Outhouse Editor

Spicy Dick wrote:I'm not even going to get started here. I already trounced your opinion in the GN thread about it, now it turns out you don't even practice what you preach!

no, you made assumptions about what I was saying. It works better as a single issue publication, I tend to read trades in one (or very few sittings) - there are lots of books I read that make that tend, not always. The Absolute Sandmans take me like a year to read. I think anyone who tries to read Watchmen in one sitting is asking for a stroke. All my second and on volumes of strips gather dust while I finish off the first volumes (Dick Tracy, Bloom County, Terry and the Pirates, The Spirit, Calvin and Hobbes). If I read Marvel Omnibii in one sitting, I would not get any sleep or go to work for a day or two.

Thrizzle, The Walking Dead, and a few other titles prove to me that Single issues can be a viable platform for many years to come. However, writers need to realize the format they are writing in and write to the strengths of that format. Decompressed chapters of Graphic Novels like JMS' Thor should just be published in Graphic Novel format and bypass singles altogether.

Outhouse Editor

Spicy Dick wrote:I'm not even going to get started here. I already trounced your opinion in the GN thread about it, now it turns out you don't even practice what you preach!

no, you made assumptions about what I was saying. It works better as a single issue publication, I tend to read trades in one (or very few sittings) - there are lots of books I read that make that tend, not always. The Absolute Sandmans take me like a year to read. I think anyone who tries to read Watchmen in one sitting is asking for a stroke. All my second and on volumes of strips gather dust while I finish off the first volumes (Dick Tracy, Bloom County, Terry and the Pirates, The Spirit, Calvin and Hobbes). If I read Marvel Omnibii in one sitting, I would not get any sleep or go to work for a day or two.

Thrizzle, The Walking Dead, and a few other titles prove to me that Single issues can be a viable platform for many years to come. However, writers need to realize the format they are writing in and write to the strengths of that format. Decompressed chapters of Graphic Novels like JMS' Thor should just be published in Graphic Novel format and bypass singles altogether.

Outhouse Editor

Spicy Dick wrote:#1, I'll just ignore that last bit since you know how many people have been waiting on the Blacksad HC. Don't even bother, I saw you try and recommend it to Eli Katz.

#2, yes I complained. I got a reply from them that was why I'm no longer ordering monthly comics online. I thought I could at least get what I paid for without hiring a lawyer though.

Anything more specific I would have to PM.

done, and I wasn't saying Blacksad was hipster, I was talking about the other half dozen books which I assumed would be copies of the ignatz series from Fantagraphics and other such high brow malarky that no one else reads. (except me and McKegan).

Outhouse Editor

Spicy Dick wrote:#1, I'll just ignore that last bit since you know how many people have been waiting on the Blacksad HC. Don't even bother, I saw you try and recommend it to Eli Katz.

#2, yes I complained. I got a reply from them that was why I'm no longer ordering monthly comics online. I thought I could at least get what I paid for without hiring a lawyer though.

Anything more specific I would have to PM.

done, and I wasn't saying Blacksad was hipster, I was talking about the other half dozen books which I assumed would be copies of the ignatz series from Fantagraphics and other such high brow malarky that no one else reads. (except me and McKegan).

Outhouse Editor

I won't be reviewing next week since I won't be getting my books until the following Monday. Or... it will be a really late review I guess.

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